… It is no longer wholly alien and thus unaccountable, but becomes a part of the universe which he has touched and known. … attitude quite capable of suggesting it, since for us also the world of art corresponds to that part of the real … shores are relatively bare because “not enough people have died on them.” Wildness and majesty and even height are, we …
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… fitting to cast an eye on American freedom, past and yet to come, as Michael Kammen has done in his VQR essay. As one of … Urbana where he was chairman of the history department. He also served as Harmsworth Professor of History at Queens … matters should be addressed to The Managing Editor. Website: http://www . virginia. edu/ EDITORIAL OFFICES: …
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… This is one-stop shopping at its most frenetic. Life and commerce thrum. Violence here is largely invisible—until, of … offer walking paths and artists’ studios—seem like the unstudied pet projects of a rich kid whose internal logic reveals … will follow. To do this requires not just money (Haiti, he points out, is still languishing in poverty despite several …
… and Other Unsays, By Constance Rourke. Harcourt, Brace and Company. $.100. The Wind Blew from the Host: A Study in the … which were almost totally unregarded when she began her studies. Her purpose was to rescue the fast-perishing record of … put to work on a particular problem. “The Rise of Theatricals,” besides making sense of a subject which has hitherto …
… F. A. Voigt and Geoffrey Dun-lop. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Vols. I, II, and III. $15.00. When the last trumpet … of the Wil-helmian period. Gleefully he reviews old scandals, among them the questionable parentage of Queen … suffered injustice at the hands of William II. He even points out that he resembled Bismarck in that he was …
… St. Petersburg, now that the Iron Curtain has fallen and communism has wound up in the dustbin of history. Mr. Praser … Visiting Professor at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, a city with which he first became acquainted … matters should be addressed to The Managing Editor. Website: http://www.vqronline.org/ EDITORIAL OFFICES: ONE …